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| ID | Description |
| 164 | Nationwide survey of children's literature, using U3A members |
| 165 | Nationwide survey of memories of school, using U3A members |
| 296 | Survey to find out relative numbers of men and women in U3A |
| 297 | Growth of U3As & distribution across the UK |
| 432 | Book on the U3A in Britain by Eric Midwinter, one of the founders. Describes the origins, development and aspirations of the British U3A |
| 440 | Book on third age by Peter Laslett, one of the founders of U3A in Britain, which argues that it is the age of greatest personal fulfilment. |
| 448 | National Survey - composition of membership |
| 452 | Article in U3A News by Ian Searle (then national chairman) on research and the U3A movement |
| 459 | Inquiry into the future of lifelong learning |
| 464 | Survey by U3A News Editorial Board on readers'views and wishes for the magazine |
| 465 | Request for photographs or transcripts of personal WW1 memorabilia as part of online archive |
| 466 | Survey by U3A's Information and Communications Technology Advisory Group to establish use of technology in running U3As |
| 507 | Annual lecture series provided for the U3A by the Royal Institution with current scientific researchers |
| 508 | Annual lecture series provided for the U3A by DANA with current scientific researchers |
| 509 | Annual lecture series provided for the U3A by National Institute for Medical Research with current scientific researchers |
| 539 | Article in TAM by Ivor Manley on the founding principles of the U3A, including the emphasis on research |
| 557 | Intolerance of uncertainty, worry and engagement in personally meaningful activities in older adults |
| 601 | A response to the challenges facing the NHS and society by our ageing population. One proposed solution is to increase social interactions between the elderly and various different volunteering schemes to increase social interaction through various activities. We would like to gain an insight into the different forms of more academic stimulation provided by your services and the impact that they have had on your participants. We hope to develop a structure which could be applicable on a larger scale to help solve issues such as loneliness, depression and isolation that the vulnerable elderly are likely to face. |
| 661 | U3A; making people scientifically literate - article by Ian Nash in Education Journal, 18th May 2015, Issue 233 |
| 662 | Education plays a key role in the fight against isolation and loneliness among older citizens - article by Ian Nash in Education Journal, 1st March 2016, Issue 261. It includes a reply to the main article by Pam Jones, National Chair of U3A |
| 663 | In Praise of U3A - article by Andrew Brown in the Guardian, 11th April 2015 |
| 664 | What do we do in Retirement? - article by Ian Nash in Mature Times, March 2016 |
| 665 | Extract from an an article in the Times about U3A including an interview with Barbara Lewis (previous National Chair) |
| 666 | Britain's most inspiring university - article by India Sturgis for Daily Mail Online, 10th May 2015 |
| 668 | New technology revolution brings "learning windfall" to 500,000 third-agers - article by Ian Nash in Education Journal, 6th July 2016, Issue 239 |
| 885 | Think U3A when you relocate! Many third agers take into account whether there is a U3A nearby when relocating to a new area. U3A is a great way to meet people with similar interests- share interests learning and activities in a relaxed environment. |
| 886 | This is an online study exploring the link between visual imagery and memory. Visual imagery is the ability to form images within the mind without these images physically being in front of us |
| 921 | Article about the reissue of a book by one of the founders of U3A in the UK, Eric Midwinter, Education and the Community |
| 922 | Book about adult education |
| 926 | This is a research study investigating the 'Housing Preferences of an Ageing Society in the UK'. UK residents ages 55+ are invited to take part in a questionnaire survey on this topic. By participating in this study, you will be helping us to understand the needs of people in your age group. This will potentially impact on future housing developments, promoting residents’ health and wellbeing. |
| 936 | What do U3As want from learning? This was the theme of a small research project conducted on behalf of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) for its Older and Bolder initiative, which aims to persuade educational providers of all kinds to recognise, cater for and encourage older learners. An important part of this campaign has been to update basic data about what kinds of learning older people take up and why, and in what numbers. |
| 937 | Get the Knowledge - is it possible for 155,000 people to keep a secret? |
| 942 | Debate of the Age; many U3As took part in the wide-ranging discussions of the Debate of the Age and contributed points of view from retired people. The future of health provision, work patterns, housing and pensions were all part of the survey of future trends in an ageing population. |
| 946 | Len Street, the former U3A Chairman, has pointed out that U3As have linked with the National Trust to research a garden layout, have recorded oral history of a town and are engaged in a project to create an oral history archive of 20th century technological developments. Other U3As could assist museums in local research, cataloguing, using members’ technological knowledge about processes and equipment, restoration work, role players or room stewards. U3As with art groups have given accounts of their visits to galleries in SOURCES, and archaeologists and historians have used the museums’ resources. This Government policy publication, The Learning Power of Museums, will add impetus to the growth of a learning society of which all U3As are a part. |
| 950 | Experiments in Third Age Education At the Norwich Conference 2000 the Standing Committee for Education (SCE) mounted a programme designed to focus on the U3A interest group, the resources that support it and the members who animate it. Following a tripartite presentation to the whole conference covering the Resource Centre, SOURCES and new developments in distance learning, ten colleagues led group sessions either replicating a first meeting in selected subject areas or exploring some approaches and methodologies current in U3A. In October the participants met in London to evaluate the project, many contributing considered written papers to the meeting. A similar structure was the basis of a Study Day held by U3A Scotland in Perth and this article is partly a report and partly a personal reflection on both events. |
| 952 | We are currently living through an unprecedented period, due to the coronavirus and everyone’s daily lives are being affected. The situation is impacting on people in lots of different ways and you will all have your own experiences, thoughts and reflections on what this time is like for you and how it is affecting you, both on a practical and on a psychological level. We would really like to capture all of this as part of a UK wide living history project. |
| 979 | Design/Age was a project run by the Royal College of Art. U3A Design/Age was a subset of the main project, looking at ways that the world of the future could be made age-friendly. This included diffentiating between different age groups within the term 'elderly' where a 50 year old, a seventy year old and a ninety year old will have very different capabilities. |
| 990 | Exploring Social Inclusivity in the U3A by Rebecca Patterson et al. In Ageing and Society No 36, 2016 |
| 998 | The Resource Centre conducted a survey to investigate usage of the resources by U3A groups. A postal questionnaire was sent to all chairs of U3As whose groups had never used the Centre. |
| 1001 | Article by Heinz Wolff of Brunel University on the Millennium Homes Project, which looked at the role of technology in supporting older peole in homes of their choice. |
| 1007 | 2003 Survey of U3A Learning - summary of results from first stage |
| 1009 | Lockdown diaries written by U3A members during the first period of lockdown March-July 2020 |
| 1017 | The High Street project is the first national survey carried out by U3A. It began in 2018 with the intention of recording changes in retail, but in response to the pandemic of 2020 a survey carried out in both 2020 and 2021 was added to the original format. |
| 1024 | The Slow Ways project aims to create a network of safe, easy and enjoyable walking routes that connect towns, cities and villages across the UK. The website is open to anyone but it's hoped that U3A members taking part will create activity in their local areas and that it may develop into more specialised aspects of walks, eg, bird watching, geology etc by way of local interest groups. |
| 1025 | Request from ARCHA for volunteers who want to help improve quality of life in older age. |
| 1033 | Addressing Health was a three year study by Kings College of the historical health of postal workers. Part of the project was the transcription of the original records. |
| 1037 | VOICES THROUGH TIME: THE STORY OF CARE We need your help to turn our vast archive collection into documents that can be easily accessed and read online. Thomas Coram established The Foundling Hospital in 1739, as the UK’s first home for children whose mothers were unable to care for them. Today, the charity Coram continues to support vulnerable children and young people. Our archive contains thousands of handwritten records, going back to the 1700s, which contain the stories of children who were cared for at the Foundling Hospital. With your help transcribing these records, we can make them available online for the first time. We can find out more about the lives of children in care in the past, the institutions that cared for them, the history of Coram and the story of care in the UK. |
| 1038 | Based on the Cary Ellison Theatre programme collection, held at Kingston University, this is a combination of research and personal memories of lost theatre venues across the UK |
| 1040 | The U3A Future Lives Group is looking at several aspects of Ageing Well - Positive Ageing; Housing; Care and Carers. The Housing group has produced a questionnaire to help people reflect on whether the place where they live at present will be suitable for their future lives. |
| 1060 | Market Research Report: People who have recently left full time work |
| 1061 | U3A members are needed to help improve housing for older people, by taking part in consumer research to produce a new ISO standard for age-friendly housing. |
| 1068 | Volunteers needed to transcribe the manuscript notebooks of chemist and poet Sir Humphrey Davy. This is an online project so available to anyone in the country. |
| 1080 | A network has been set up for U3A members interested in astronomy and spaceflight. It is hoped it will become an online 'club' where members can share information.. As it is such a huge subject area, the site is broken down into topics such as cosmology, astronomy, space missions and exploration, the night sky and the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. |
| 1087 | Their Finest Hour - an online digital archive (funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, based at the University of Oxford) of the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War. |
| 1088 | Family Photos and Family Histories |
| 1089 | Inheriting the Family |